“My friends,” the former governor said Monday at an Ohio AFL-CIO event in the Cleveland area, "a lot of average citizens out there don’t understand the importance of that court.

“I mean, the death of Scalia saved labor from a terrible decision,” Strickland continued, as his audience clapped and laughed. “And I don’t wish anyone ill, but it happened at a good time, because once that decision had been made it would have been tough to reverse it.”

No Trump supporter can afford to be critical of the senator’s gaffe. Since I am not a Trump supporter, I can be critical. It was a poor choice of words, not to mention demeaning to the memory of Justice Antonin Scalia.